In Germany there some companies who after a few months just "force provement of visit" on all low reviews. And then the person who post the review is required do fight back and upload a receipt of the store. It's verry annoying to find real good stores
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I wrote this a few months ago:
On the other hand, a business owner has no other tool against review bombing except this. In a village near me a barber shop was review bombed by neo-nazis due to their support for refugees. They removed the fake reviews successfully but from time to time this Nazi scum remembers and review bomb them again. This goes on since at least 2020.
OpenStreetMaps should include reviews so that I can get info from my geeks and nerd online frens
Thatβs all of them. People with grievances have good reviews removed too tbh
Obligatory 'Fuck Google'.
They should just straight up put a big, red exclamation mark on averages for places where unusually many reviews are removed, with an appeal process for the business, not the users.
On that lawsuit thing thought: You don't risk anything by appealing. Courts don't care what Google has to say. The business can sue you right away, they don't need to remove anything first. If what you said are simple facts however, there is nothing they can do. Nothing but ask Google to remove it anyway.
Not useless, that's a warning to avoid the business.
Google maps reviews are pretty useless in general. I find they're only to be read for entertainment value.
Not pointless, find the new average, everything removed was a 1 star
Always give a 2-star rating and explain that you would rather give it zero stars. Google won't remove it without much more investigation.
I don't only blame google, I also blame the German laws around this
Is the 250 limit a German law?
If not, they could just give the exact number and let you calculate a new mean considering they all had 1/5
If a company has many removed reviews they're crap. If they don't, they're not crap. They're deliberately showing how many have been removed.
A CafΓ© in my hometown recently got review bombed by nazis after they kicked out a far right streamer. Hundreds of one star reviews by people who had never been there, with made up claims. Should they not be able to have these removed?
Of course? Where did I say they shouldn't be removed?
You can remove those by actual defamation lawsuit in any country I think, however what is done in Germany seems very different and at the cost of the users imho.
Sadly after 365 days the count resets :( Evil corp helping evil...
That's kind of fair, though. A company could change hands, or a product could change. In the latter case you often see great reviews that actually relate to a totally different product because they've enshittified it.
So many vulnerable people are relying on Google Maps reviews & ratings to tell them where it is save to go.
They should probably stop doing that.
https://www.theglobetrotterguys.com/gay-berlin-travel-guide/
that number is also a telling review then
Yes it telling, but don't matter. I have many bad reviews removed from bad places, that now stands with high rating that the good places that have 0 review complaint. I can not give more 5 scores on good places, I can not give less that 5 scores to bad places. It is impossible to a good place has better score without playing the same game, that some places, are too good to enter in this shit

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